Community Engagement Lead

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

Role Scope

Represent Fluidstack at town halls, public hearings, planning commission meetings, and community events as the primary external face across active development sites.
Build and hold relationships across a wide stakeholder matrix: elected officials, city and county staff, utility partners, school districts, workforce development organizations, nonprofits, and trade associations.
Identify and get ahead of organized opposition before capital is committed, surfacing reputational, regulatory, and political risk in coordination with Development, Legal, and Commercial teams.
Deploy community benefit commitments, including local hiring programs, educational partnerships, and grants, and write communications materials that translate infrastructure complexity into clear narratives for community, government, and executive audiences.
Manage external partners, including lobbyists, consultants, and PR agencies, across multiple concurrent site campaigns.

What We're Looking For

• You've been the named external face for a large infrastructure project, fielding opposition at public hearings and building coalitions that got something built.
• You've managed a stakeholder map with genuine competing interests, elected officials, regulators, community organizations, utilities, and kept relationships functional under pressure.
• You spot political or reputational risk early enough to do something about it, and you've changed a project outcome by catching something before it organized into opposition.
• You write and speak clearly enough to make a complex infrastructure story land with a city council member, a local nonprofit, and a CEO in the same week.
• You've directly managed lobbyists, PR firms, or political consultants: set the brief, held them accountable, and stepped in when they weren't moving fast enough.
• You're comfortable on the road; this role requires sustained presence at active sites, not periodic visits.
• Bonus: Hyperscale or AI data center development experience. Energy procurement or grid interconnection communications. Sustainability or environmental permitting narratives.

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $250,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options. We are committed to pay equity and transparency.